DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
Your privacy is very important to us. This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) is provided by Berkshire Hathaway European Insurance DAC, registered office at 7 Grand Canal Street Lower, Dublin D02 KW81, (“BHEI”) in accordance with the data protection law including the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
References to “we”, “our” and “us” in this Privacy Notice are references to BHEI. References to “you” or “your” refers to the individual whose personal data is being processed by BHEI (you may be the insured, beneficiary, claimant or other person involved in a claim or relevant to the insurance policy).
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DATA CONTROLLER
A data controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Berkshire Hathaway European Insurance DAC, with registered office in 7 Grand Canal Street Lower, Dublin D02 KW81, Ireland, is the Data Controller as defined by the GDPR..
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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
In order to provide certain insurance products and services (including providing insurance quotes, insurance policies, and/or dealing with any claims or complaints), BHEI may collect information about you which constitutes personal data under the GDPR. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, share and protect your personal data. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand what we do with your personal data.
This Privacy Notice is available on https://bhei.com/privacy-policy/ and may be changed and updated from time to time as required.
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PERSONAL DATA WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The types of personal data we collect may include:
| Types of Personal Data | Details |
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| Individual details: | Name, address (including proof of address), other contact details (e.g. email and telephone numbers), gender, marital status, date and place of birth, nationality, employer, job title and employment history, academic and professional information, family details, including their relationship to you. |
| Identification details: | Identification numbers issued by government bodies or agencies, including your national insurance number or, passport number, tax identification number and driving licence number |
| Financial information: | Bank account or payment card details, income or other financial information |
| Risk details: | Information about you which we need to collect in order to assess the risk to be insured and provide a quote. This may include data relating to your health, criminal convictions, or other special categories of personal data. For certain types of policy, this could also include telematics data. |
| Policy information: | Information about the quotes you receive and policies you take out |
| Credit and Anti-Fraud Data: | Credit history, credit score, sanctions and criminal offences, and information received from various anti-fraud databases relating to you |
| Previous and current claims: | Information about previous and current claims, (including other unrelated insurances), which may include data relating to your health, criminal convictions, or other special categories of personal data and in some cases, surveillance reports |
| Special categories of personal data: | Certain categories of personal data which have additional protection under the GDPR. Special categories of personal data which may be collected by BHEI are as follows: Health, criminal convictions, racial or ethnic origin, genetic or biometric data. |
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WHERE WE MIGHT COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA FROM
We might collect your personal data from various sources, including:
- you;
- your family members, employer or representative;
- other insurance market partners;
- credit reference agencies;
- anti-fraud databases, sanctions lists, court judgements and other databases;
- government agencies;
- open electoral register; or
- in the event of a claim, third parties including the other party to the claim (claimant / defendant), witnesses, experts (including medical experts), loss adjustors, solicitors, and claims handlers
Which of the above sources apply will depend on your particular circumstances.
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THE PURPOSES, CATEGORIES AND LEGAL GROUNDS FOR OUR PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA.
Data protection law says that we are only allowed to hold, use or share personal data if we need to do so or we have a legal basis for doing so. BHEI relies on one or more of the following legal bases depending on the type of data and the purpose for using it:
▪ To fulfil a contract we have with you
▪ When we are legally obliged to do so
▪ When it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest
▪ When we need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims
▪ When it is necessary to protect your vital interests
▪ When it is in our “legitimate interest” (i.e. we have a commercial or business reason)
▪ When your consent is required and you consent to it
We set out below the purposes and legal basis for which we may process your personal data during the lifecycle of providing insurance products and services to you.
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WHO WE MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
In order to undertake the activities listed above it may be necessary to share your data with third parties. Who we share this data with may depend on the insurance products and services we provide to you but may include:
- Other insurers that co-insure your policy
- Reinsurance intermediaries
- Reinsurance Companies
- Loss adjusters, solicitors and claims management companies
- Anti-Fraud agencies and private investigators
- Government departments and databases
- Outsourced service providers
- Regulators
- Our Berkshire Hathaway entities and affiliate entities
- Other persons providing auxiliary services on behalf of BHEI
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PROFILING
When calculating insurance premiums, insurance market participants may compare your personal data against industry averages. Your personal data may also be used to create the industry averages going forward. This is known as profiling and is used to ensure premiums reflect risk.
Profiling may also be used by us to assess information you provide to protect against fraud.
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RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will keep your personal data only for so long as is necessary and for the purpose for which it was originally collected.
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INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We may need to transfer your data to insurance market participants or their affiliates or sub-contractors and BHEI group affiliates which are located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) where data privacy laws may not be the same as they are in the EEA. Those transfers are undertaken with the required GDPR safeguards in place.
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YOUR RIGHTS
As set forth by the applicable data protection legislation, you have the right to:
- Be informed of what personal data (if any) we hold about you;
- Be informed about how we use your personal data;
- Be provided with a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;
- Request that any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you is corrected or updated;
- Request that any personal data, for which we no longer have a lawful basis to use, be deleted;
- Where our use of your personal data is based on your consent, to withdraw your consent so that we no longer use your personal data;
- Object to us using your personal data for our legitimate interests, however we will be entitled to continue that use if our interests outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights;
- Request that we restrict how we use your personal data whilst a complaint is being investigated;
- Be provided with a copy of your personal data in an electronic machine-readable format for your own use or for the purpose of sharing with a new insurer; and
- File a complaint with us and/or the relevant data protection authority.
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OUR CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions in relation to our use of your personal data, you can contact the Data
Protection Officer at BHEI by post or email using the following details:
Data Protection Officer
Berkshire Hathaway European Insurance DAC
7 Grand Canal Street Lower,
Dublin D02 KW81
E-Mail: [email protected]
- YOUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN TO THE DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITYIf you are not satisfied with our use of your personal data or our response to any request by you to exercise any of your rights or if you think that we have breached our Data Protection obligations, then you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission (“DPC”). Please see below for contact details of the DPC.Data Protection Commission21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
IRELAND
Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie/
June 2023